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Dunhuang manuscript culture : end of the First Millennium
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised …
- Edition
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110726572
- Collation
- VIII, 289 p.
- Series Title
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- Call Number
- 091.095145 GAL d
Translating Chinese tradition and teaching Tangut culture : manuscripts and p…
This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture through translation and what their reasons for this were. Of the seven chapters, the first three pro…
- Edition
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110453959
- Collation
- VIII, 318 p.
- Series Title
- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 6
- Call Number
- 895.4 GAL t
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